Popular Topics

Change Google Chrome Browsers default download location

📅 12 Jul 2020 15:23 GMT | 👤 @c2cDev

Google Chrome downloads the files from the internet to Downloads folder by default be it running on Windows or Mac OS X Operating systems.

Default download locations :

Windows XP :

\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\Downloads

Windows 7 :

\Users\<username>\Downloads

Windows 8/ Windows 10 :

\Users\<username>\Downloads

Mac OS X :

\Users\<username>\Downloads

Linux :

\home\<username>\Downloads

Change Default file download Location:

If you do not want Chrome to download and save files to this default location then you must choose your specific destination as follows :

Click on Chrome menu (Hamburger menu icon: Customize and Control Google Chrome)
Now Select on Settings from the menu
Now Click on Show advanced settings hyperlink.
Scroll till you find Downloads
Change the Download location to the one you want.

If you want Chrome to ask download location for each file to be downloaded then follow the below steps :

Click on Chrome menu (Hamburger menu icon: Customize and Control Google Chrome)
Now Select on Settings from the menu
Now Click on Show advanced settings hyperlink.
Scroll till you find Downloads
Check: ask where to save the file before downloading.

More Posts related to Chrome,

More Posts:

Recent Posts:

.

Code2care is an initiative to publish and share varied knowledge in programming and technical areas gathered during day-to-day learnings and development activities.

Students and Software Developers can leverage this portal to find solutions to their various queries without re-inventing the wheel by referring to our easy to understand posts. Technical posts might include Learnings, Video Tutorials, Code Snippets, How Tos, Blogs, Articles, etc.